Dewey re-enters society different than one he left 17 years ago

8:22 AM,
May 1, 2012

Written by

Will Ripley
9News

GRAND JUNCTION - Robert Dewey walked out of a Mesa County courtroom as a free man Monday afternoon, after serving 6,219 days in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit.

Dewey declined to make a statement shortly before he was exonerated, but he did thank Judge Brian Flynn when he was exonerated and he also thanked Rich Tuttle, the Mesa County Assistant District Attorney who prosecuted the original case in 1996.